Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers

Usage examples of gardenia.

From Terra to Neuhafen, to Gardenia, to Asperity, to Quintesme and the radiation labs.

He no longer wished to cultivate the image of a sweet chap passionately interested in nothing except phlox, asters, freesias and gardenias.

And by the time the roast whole hog and pipi oma roastbeef had been finished off everyone was drunk, even some of the tourists were drunk, and he had stripped off his gook shirt and kicked off his sandals and rolled his slacks up to his knees and jumped out into the firelight and danced Meliani Oe for them with a gardenia snatched from the hair of the youngest wahine stuck over his ear, and that had really gotten her.

They missed their homes and loved their wives, but they were men and mostly young and they dreamed of the bare-breasted Polynesian girls with gardenias in theif long black hair and names like the jungle waterfalls.

Holding her head high, squeezing her gardenia bouquet, she walked sedately down the aisle, refusing to glance tother side, refusing to admit that she felt queasy.

They had reached The Bunyas, where from the fir-trees and the datura flowers, and the blossoming gardenias in the borders, there exhaled a strong night fragrance.

A quick glance showed that the gardenia had easily overpowered vanilla, cinnamon, bayberry, lilac, belladonna, monkshood, pholiotina, and yohimbe.

Madison Avenue, in a large second-floor corner office behind the exhibition area at Kohn and Munson Gallery, a summer scent of gardenias overpowered the delicate spring perfume of the paper-whites that sat on a wide glass-top desk.

The neckline was very low, and she knew it would form a wide, deep curve over her shoulders, which would be softened by the delicate silk flowers, gardenias tipped in pale pink, that ornamented it.

Pursing her lips, she judged the greasy substance Rena gave her as too much and blotted some off, leaving a pale, shiny color of pink on her mouth, almost the same shade as the soft gardenias at her breasts and hair.

Tiny miniature gardenias were attached to the band, and her face seemed to be framed by the delicate flowers.

The fragrance of honeysuckle, jasmine, and gardenias was heavy in the air.

Everywhere were rugs, pictures, gardenias, striped hangings, photographs, and curved settees, while on the walls hung guns, pistols, pouches, and the mounted heads of wild beasts.

Ginger mused upon her ancestresses who had left behind, in bureau drawers and standing chests, bars of petrified gardenia soap and cylinders of solid bath crystals and long-necked carafes of bath oils, their contents separated like salad dressing but which could yet be shaken and poured.

Alfie had almost certainly plucked from her the fresh gardenia of her maidenhood, for his chieftaincy of the Minids gave him carnal access to almost every female who had attained menarche.